Seemingly taking advantage of the endorphins produced among congressmen during a long but productive plenary session, Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste has made a plea to a House leader in order to save his friend, "congressmeow" Cavite 4th district Rep. Francisco "Kiko" Barzaga....
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) annual summer ritual is familiar: it promises that the electricity supply will be “enough and stable,” but the power grid clearly is not getting the memo. After decades of forecasting, energy officials still miss the mark so consistently that it almost feels...
House Deputy Speaker Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin has filed a resolution seeking a congressional inquiry into the growing incidence of fake news, online harassment, cyber threats, disinformation, and other forms of digital abuse proliferating across social media and online platforms. Her...
It looks like health reform advocate Dr. Tony Leachon irked more congressmen than previously thought with his resignation call against Executive Secretary (ES) Ralph Recto. Lashing out at Leachon on Monday, May 11, were Lanao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong and Manila 3rd district Rep....
House Deputy Speaker Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Janette Garin has shown that she is unbothered by the recent references to her and Dengvaxia, despite what her congressman-colleagues might think. Recently tagging Garin in Dengvaxia-related posts are "congressmeow" Cavite 4th district Rep. Francisco...
During intense deliberations that preceded the 2005 enactment of the Expanded Value Added Tax (E-VAT) Law, which also covered oil and electricity, lawmakers defended the measure as a treasury-tightening mechanism; an unpopular but calculated imposition designed to raise massive revenues so it could...
When health reform advocate Dr. Tony Leachon called for Executive Secretary (ES) Ralph Recto 's resignation, he probably didn 't expect three women leaders from the House of Representatives to give him a dressing-down for his supposedly haphazard remarks. Rebuking and lecturing Leachon on...
Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste has brushed off the criminal complaint filed against him and five other executives of Solar Para sa Bayan Corporation (SPSB/SPBC), calling it “super duper hina (super duper weak)". "The only information I have is what I got from the media, and...
Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste has claimed that he helped clinch the victory of Batangas Governor Vilma Santos-Recto in the 2025 elections, and that the "Star For All Seasons" would have lost without his intervention. It is also because of this that the Rectos feel "threatened"...
While insisting that the coal moratorium stays, Energy Secretary Sharon Garin indicated that the Department of Energy (DOE) is giving the country’s aging coal plants a not-so-gentle performance review—especially those that keep “calling in sick” through repeated forced outages that strain...
House Deputy Speakers Paolo Ortega V and Janette Garin categorically denied over the weekend that congressmen were either bribed or forced to vote for the declaration of probable cause in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment case. Ortega, La Union 's 1st district representative,...
Cavite 4th district Rep. Francisco "Kiko" Barzaga simply wants to be true to his inner cat--which is the reason why he always appears to be ragebaiting people, even his colleagues in the House of Representatives. This can be gleaned from his past conversation with House Deputy Speaker Iloilo 1st...
